would only convert
them to leather.

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PROSPECT IN FOREIGN POLITICS.--When Austria and Russia fall out, KOSSUTH
and MAZZINI will come by their own.

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QUERY FOR TABLE-TURNERS.--Have you ever turned a square table round?

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[Illustration: ONE OF THE HORRORS OF THE CHOBHAM WAR]

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UNCLE TOM'S POLLING BOOTH.

The dashing Protestant candidate for Sligo in his address advised his
intended constituents to beware of the "priestly LEGREES who seek to
reduce them to political UNCLETOMITUDE." We should say that he--but, on
second thoughts, we scorn to put two good things into the same
paragraph.

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LITTLE CRY AND GREAT WOOL.

One of the daily journals constantly warns the present age against its
tendency to succumb to the Lawyers, and "the legal mind." But the mammas
and nurses of England are beforehand with the journalist. Nearly the
first lesson and warning a child receives is, "Bar, Bar--Black Sheep."

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AN ACHING VOID.--A hollow tooth.

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[Illustration: THE BEAR AND THE BEES.--A NEW VERSION OF AN OLD STORY.]

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THE RE-CHRISTENING OF THE BOSPHORUS.

Not the less apart for ever,
Europe's coast, and Asia's shore,
Though two continents to sever,
Scarce a mile of sea doth roar;
Though, whene'er that ocean-music
Sinks upon the summer air.
You may near Sultanieh's bulbuls
Answering those of Buyukdere.

To that belt of rolling water,
In the early Grecian age,
Came the Argive king's fair daughter
Fleeing JUNO'S jealous rage.
ZEUS had wrought the maid dishonour;
And to hide her from his spouse,
Working foul defeature on her,
Changed her fair form to a cow's.

But the lynx-eyed wife discovering
What the heifer's form concealed,
As a gad-fly quickly hovering,
Stung her rival from the field;
Driving on that hapless maiden--
Mad with pain and flecked with gore--
Till she staggered, sorrow-laden,
To the far Propontid shore.

Pausing there, perforce, to breathe her,
Faint, and frenzied, and foredone,
She beheld the sea beneath her
Basking lucid in the sun.
In she dashed--the grateful chillness
Bro